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Abstract
Panchanathan and Boyd describe a model of indirect reciprocity in which mutual aid among cooperators can promote large-scale human cooperation without succumbing to a second-order free-riding problem (whereby individuals receive but do not give aid). However, the model does not include second-order free riders as one of the possible behavioural types. Here I present a simplified version of their model to demonstrate how cooperation unravels if second-round defectors enter the population, and this shows that the free-riding problem remains unsolved.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16177738 DOI: 10.1038/nature04201
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN: 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962